{"id":282311,"date":"2024-02-23T08:20:49","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T08:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=282311"},"modified":"2024-02-24T06:42:40","modified_gmt":"2024-02-24T06:42:40","slug":"houthi-yemen-introduced-submarine-weapon-in-red-sea-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=282311","title":{"rendered":"Houthi: Yemen introduced \u2018submarine weapon\u2019 in Red Sea operations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Press TV \u2013 Feb 23, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Yemen’s armed forces have introduced the “submarine weapon” in their operations which they are carrying out in the Red Sea in solidarity with the Palestinians, Ansarullah leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi says.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWe introduced the submarine weapon into the confrontation in the Red Sea, and it is a weapon that worries the enemy,\u201d he said in a televised speech on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Yemeni forces have launched repeated drone and missile strikes in the Red Sea, Bab al-Mandab Strait and Gulf of Aden since November in support of Palestinians.<\/p>\n

They say the operations will continue unless\u00a0Israel stops its war on the besieged Gaza Strip, which has killed almost 30,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children.<\/p>\n

So far, 183 missiles and drones have been launched against Israeli targets in the occupied territories, al-Houthi\u00a0said.\u00a0In the Red and Arab Seas, 48 ships have been targeted.<\/p>\n

\u201cThirteen specific operations were carried out in recent days, the most prominent of which was sinking the British ship and shooting down the American drone,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

The US on Tuesday confirmed that an MQ-9 Reaper drone was downed in Yemen.\u00a0In November, the Pentagon acknowledged the loss of an MQ-9, worth about $30 million, which was also shot down by Yemen over the Red Sea.<\/p>\n

Pentagon deputy press secretary Sabrina Singh said the drone was shot down on Monday off the coast of areas near the Red Sea.<\/p>\n

\u201cInitial indications are that it was shot down by a Houthi surface-to-air missile,\u201d she told reporters, referring to Yemen\u2019s Ansarullah fighters who are at the spearhead of operations against Israeli and Israeli-bound vessels.<\/p>\n

The group has added US and British assets to its list of targets since the two countries began targeting Yemen from the air and sea\u00a0in support of Israel\u2019s war on Gaza.<\/p>\n

President Joe Biden\u00a0last month acknowledged\u00a0the strikes were not having a deterrent effect against the Yemeni’s army’s launch of missiles and drones.<\/p>\n

Al-Houthi said Thursday, “Operations in the Red and Arabian Seas, Bab al-Mandab Strait, and the Gulf of Aden are continuing, escalating, and effective.”<\/p>\n

\u201cThe available missiles have been developed to the point that the Americans are unable to intercept or shoot them down, despite the technology they possess,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

On Monday, Yemeni forces targeted Britain\u2019s Rubymar cargo vessel in the Gulf of Aden. Military spokesperson Yahya Saree said the crew was safe but that the ship was badly damaged and at risk of sinking.<\/p>\n

Al-Houthi said, “We do not practice any blackmail against ships passing through the Red and Arab Seas on the condition that they are not heading to [Israel].”<\/p>\n

He said the scale of the worsening humanitarian tragedy in Gaza increases the burden of responsibility on Arabs and Muslims to take serious action.<\/p>\n

“The wealthy Arab countries are wasting hundreds of billions on trivial matters and fueling strife, and do not even provide minimal food to the Palestinian people,” al-Houthi added.<\/p>\n

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As the Pentagon confirms that a U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drone was shot sown over Yemen on Monday, speculation mounts that the Houthi are using Iranian submersible drones<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=282311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282312,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282311\/revisions\/282312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=282311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=282311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=282311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}